News and Open Source Releases

The OpenMandriva team has announced a new component of their infrastructure: an automated build farm (ABF). The new build farm will assist developers in creating and distributing open source packages as well as track tasks. "Personal repository provides you with an easy way to distribute your software among great number of Linux users by means of standard ways of software delivery. ABF will take care of package dependencies from both main repositories or extra and personal ones. Published a new package version? Users will be automatically notified about available update." Further details on the new automated build farm ca be found in the project's announcement.